The Girl Scout Cookies are long gone, but that doesn’t mean my cravings for Thin Mints will stop! Luckily, they’re super easy to make and you don’t even have to be guilted into spending $5 a box from little girls flashing their big smiles at you. I will warn you, once these are made, they will be gone immediately. I only got to enjoy about 4 cookies before my visiting family members ate them all.
I guess I’ll have to bake another batch… oh no…
Ingredients for 30-40 cookies:
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 bag of mint & chocolate chips
Preheat your oven to 350F.
Cream the sugar and butter together.
Add the egg and vanilla to the sugar mixture.
In a separate bowl, sift the flour, cocoa and salt together.
Slowly add the dry ingredients into the sugar mixture, until all is combined.
The dough will be quite dry.
Halve the dough and roll two cylinders onto a lightly floured surface.
Now that they’re looking quite unappealing, wrap the cylinders with wax paper, parchment paper or plastic wrap.
Place the cylinders in the freezer for about an hour to harden.
Take one cylinder out of the freezer at a time and use a sharp knife to slice your cookies.
I wasn’t too careful about how thin/thick my cookies were, but if you would like your cookies to be more true to Thin Mint form, definitely cut very thin slices. The thinner you slice, the crunchier they will be.
Since the dough won’t spread much, you can place quite a few cookies on one sheet.
Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Right before you take the cookies out of the oven, melt the mint chocolate chips.
Take the cookies out and drizzle the melted chocolate on top of the warm cookies.
Place the cookie sheet in the fridge and allow the chocolate covered cookies to firm up, I only had mine in for about 20 minutes before I placed them in my cookie jar. 🙂
Enjoy!
These are my favorite Girl Scout cookies. Thanks for sharing your recipe I can’t wait to make these.
They’re definitely my all time favorite too! I hope you enjoy them. 😀
This is BS… Why did you have to move away? I want to get fatter 😦
Fatter? That’s not possible. 😛
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I love thin mints! This recipe looks so easy and delicious!
My husband would kiss you. I might kiss you. Hopefully he kisses me when I make these for him. Thanks!
Just bringing marriages together one cookie at a time. Haha! I hope you and your husband enjoy them. 😀
Do you have delivery service?! These look great, I can’t wait to try them out!
Now that’s an idea, haha. I hope you enjoy them!
I blogged about this recipe and how awsome it looks! http://alwayssunnyinjune.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/homemade-girl-scout-cookies/
these look absolutely delicious, and so much like the real thing! can’t wait to try them out!
Thank you! I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. 😀
I’ve seen people make these with crackers/etc., so I like that it’s all from scratch. Yummy!
Wow. Made my mouth water. I REALLY want some cookies now. 🙂
just found your blog and I really like it! This thin mint post is great!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you’re liking it. 🙂
This looks SO good I need to try it!
mouthwatering!
I nominated you for the Shine On Award 🙂 http://youcanteatthat.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/shine-on-award/
These look amazing! I am going to make these sometime soon! Thanks for the post!
I can’t wait to try these!!!
mmmmm i will have to try these! thanks for sharing!
Your owl bowls keep catching my eye! They’re adorable. Can’t wait to try this recipe! I love thin mint cookies right out of the freezer!
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these look incredibly good!